Mold for crockery.



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MULU FUR CROCKERY. (Application led Feb. 16, 1900.)

(Nu Model.)

TN: Nomus PETERS co., vnoraumo.. wAsmNaToN, n4 c vTTED STATES PATENT Y FFICE JOSEIII COOK, OF AKRON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO CHARLES IV. VICKLINE, OF SAME PLACE.

VIO LD FOR CROCKERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 649,888, dated May 15, 1900.

Application filed February 16,1900. Serial No. 5,455. (No model.)

To all wiz/m it may] concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH COOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useiulImprovenient in Molds for Crockery, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has a general relation to iniproveinents in molds for forming vessels of Crockery; and it has especial relation to improvements in molds for forming vessels, particularly washbowls, that havewhat is known as a roll-rim-that is, Where the riniturns downward at the edge. Heretofore such vessels have been` made inverted of the desired plastic material on a mold that forms the inside ofthe vessel, the outsidebeing formed by rubbing or other means, leaving the green vessel on the mold. Diiiiculty experienced 2o in removing` the vessel from the mold, which results in breaking, cracking, or springing a large percentage of the ware and consequent loss either before or in the process of burning. One object of my invention is to overcome this difliculty by so constructing the mold that the perfected vessel will be readily separated from it without danger ofl breaking or distortion and practically automatically, and another object is to form any desired con- 3o figuration of raised figures on the exterior, and a final object is to sustain the center of the vessel until by drying it shall be sufficiently rigid to be self-supporting.

To the aforesaid objects my invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts here` inafter described, and then specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar referencer] umerals indicate like parts in vthe different views, Figure l a central section of a washbowl having a roll=rim to 45 illustrate my invention. Fig. 2 is a section of the old or common forni of mold to assist in explaining the defect to be overcome; Fig.

3, a section of my improved mold with a bowl resting therein; Fig. d, a section of the receiving-board, and Fig. 5 a section of the uthe mold.

mold and board to illustrate their joint operation on the vessel therein.

Referring to the drawings, l is the section of a washbowl having a roll-rim. As has heretofore been stated,these 11a-'ve been formed 5 5 in a mold 2, that forms the interior, the iinish of the outside being completed by rubbing the clay onto the mold. In drying the contraction of the clay drawsin Jthe direction of the arrows, Fig. 2, toward the letter A, thus 6o binding it on the Inoid, rendering it difficult to remove it without injury. My improved mold 3 is to form the outside of the vessel, and hence can have configuration to form embossed ornamentation on the Ware. The plastic material is rubbed into this to form the vessel 4. When this is done, I place on this mold a cover 5, having a central orifice 6 to permit the circulation of air in drying. This cover has an annular rim 7, that rests on the 7o ledge 8 of the mold and is of such depth as will separate the cover about one-eighth of an inch from the top of the roll-rim of the bowl, and a number of guide-cleats 9, that iit about the parts to accurately locate one above the other. Vhen the vessel is of large diameter,

I tix on the cover 5 a spring lO, that rises under the center of the vessel and is separated from it the salue distance as is the cover from The cover and mold are then in- 8o verted, as shown in Fig. 5, and laid aside to dry. As soon as the vessel shrinks in drying sufficiently to part from the mold it falls onto the cover 5, the distance of the fall being so slight that it is not damaged thereby.

When the mold is inverted, as just stated, any tendency of the central part of the ves sel to sag or sink is arrested by the spring 10. As soon as the vessel has dropped onto the cover the mold is removed and the cover and 9o vessel set aside for the latter to dry until fit for burning.

B y this invention I prevent all warping and cracking .and the molds are relieved and ready for a new vessel in a much shorter time 9 5 than by the old process hereinbefore referred to, thus greatly increasing the product from a given number of molds.

I claim as my inventionl. An improved crockerymold, consisting roo of a matrix to form the outside ofthe vessel, in combination With a cover having guides to cause it to register with the mold, and devices for suspending it a short distance from contact with the vessel in the mold, substantially as shown and described.

2: A11-improved mockery-mold, consisting A of a matrix to form the outside of thel vessel, C

in combination with a perforated cover having guides to cause it to register with the mold and devices for suspending it a short distance from contact with the vessel in the mold, substantially asdescribed.

3. An improved Crockery-mold, consisting of a matrix, to form the outside of the vessel,

JOSEPH COOK.

In presence of C. P. HUMPHREY, C. E. HUMPHREY. 

